Let Me Stay The Night

The check of two hundred thousand on the desk seemed to be beckoning at her. Powerless to resist, Macy nodded.

“Yes. The Gibson family and the Hadley family were partners on a large project. To attain the approval of the board and become the CEO, Nigel worked hard on the project. He was the one who recommended the supplier to Timothy.”

“What is the supplier’s name?”

“That’s the third question, Christina. Up the price.”

Macy was no fool. She guessed that Christina was investigating the accident, which Nigel was inextricably linked to.

Despite a couple’s marital vows, each will save themselves when disaster strikes. Besides, Nigel was the one to throw me under the bus first. I’m only repaying the favor.

Sebastian produced a check written out for three hundred thousand and placed it on top of the earlier one. Macy reached out to grab them but could not yank them free.

“You haven’t answered Mrs. Hadley yet, Mrs. Gibson,” Sebastian reminded her.

Macy withdrew her hand sheepishly. “Nigel never shared his business dealings with me, so I can’t give you a name. What I do know is that they have formed a company together over the years, with Nigel taking the lion’s share of the profits. He’s even the largest shareholder, wielding absolute power.”

Christina could tell that Macy’s narrative largely corroborated with what Nathaniel told her.

The possibility of Nigel being the mastermind was more or less established, but without evidence, everything they knew could just as easily change.

Christina signaled Sebastian to hand over the money.

Macy could hardly conceal her greed at the sight of the checks in her hands totaling close to a million. She motioned at Christina impatiently.

“Keep going. What else do you want to know? I’ll tell you everything as long as the price is right.”

Christina realized that Nigel’s marriage was not as perfect as they made it seem to the world. She would not uncover anything important if she persisted with the line of questioning through Nigel.

have anything to do with

her feet and clawed madly at Christina’s chest. “Watch your mouth, Christina!” she yelled in a rage.

how Miranda and Madison died,” Christina

Macy’s eyes. She quickly suppressed it, clutching the checks in her hand as she did so. “Though I am in urgent need of money, I will not allow my daughter’s name to be

deal

voice, dripping with

her, she does not care whether you live or die. All you have to do to get a million on the spot is just loosen your tongue. Are you sure you don’t

to?”

lead. She

is the lifeline that can drag me out of this mess. She is right.

the snare and left without so much as

the check. “Are you sure we’re just

thing as a last hand for a gambler. She’ll be back for

understood the meaning behind her words. “I know what to do, Mrs. Hadley.”

night, leaning against the headboard of her bed, Christina had a video call with the children, then spoke with Nathaniel on the phone for over an hour, after which she

earlier that day. More importantly, her debt. swelled from five

casino left Macy with no chance of escape. Before she could

a lapse of vigilance and

according to

and ridicule, they still failed to gather anything despite

still, the police suddenly turned up and all but forced them back to the precinct to aid in their

Nigel with ideas. Without evidence, the

plenty of skeletons in his closet; any single crime of the myriad he was charged

to eliminate the obstacle and align himself with the Stone family, but Nigel was indispensable. Thus, when

waiting for almost three